Opioid misuse at record lows with marijuana use remaining stable. America's teens report a dramatic increase in their use of vaping devices in just a single year, with 37.3 percent of 12th graders reporting "any vaping" in the past 12 months, compared to just 27.8 percent in 2017.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A floating device sent to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii has not swept up any plastic waste - but the young innovator behind the project said Monday that a fix was in the works.

NovaSolix hopes to use carbon nanotubes to capture a broader portion of the sun's electromagnetic spectrum, a process they hope will yield a 90% efficient solar cell at a tenth of the cost of modern solar modules.

Over the past four years, AI has made incredible breakthroughs across many industries and areas. The greatest evidence of its advancement can be seen in AI's ability to generate fake human faces, which has come a long way in such a short space of time.

Eighty-two percent of Americans say they have heard "nothing at all" about the sweeping proposal to generate 100 percent of the nation's electricity from clean sources within the next 10 years, upgrade the United States' power grid, invest in energy-efficiency and renewable technology, and provide training for jobs in the new, green economy.

Autonomous cars could finally have their moment in 2019: a coast-to-coast drive, sans human driver, across the United States. With Google, Waymo, Tesla and Uber all vying for dominance in the space, the prospect of one company making its way across by the end of the year seems likely.

THE STONE Our species possesses inherent value, but we are devastating the earth and causing unimaginable animal suffering. By Todd May Mr. May is a professor of philosophy at Clemson University. There are stirrings of discussion these days in philosophical circles about the prospect of human extinction.

14 December 2018 The study, published in the International Journal of Cancer , compared a new 'epigenetics-based' cervical cancer test with Pap smear and HPV tests, and investigated how well it predicted the development of cervical cancer up to five years in advance in a large study of women aged 25-65 in Canada.

Samsung claims that it has invented a new holographic device that will actually project high-quality 3D images in the air without you having to look at a display from a specific angle, unlike the Nintendo 3DS.

When Tesla debuted its Powerpack 2 energy storage system in 2016, Business Insider heralded it as "massive." The idea was to standardize a power storage unit that could be deployed en masse to store extra energy from the grid and then dole it out when it was needed.